Daniel Lagerquist

Daniel Lagerquist (1782-1814) was a colonel of the Swedish Army during the War of the Sixth Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. Lagerquist commanded a regiment of line infantry in Belgium, and was killed on 10 February 1814 at the Battle of Denain.

Biography
Daniel Lagerquist was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1782. Lagerquist enlisted in the army in 1805 during the War of the Third Coalition at the start of the Napoleonic Wars, and he fought in Swedish Pommerania (part of Mecklenburg). Lagerquist later became the colonel of a regiment of Swedish line infantry.

In 1813, Lagerquist commanded his regiment in the campaign against France in central Germany and later advanced through Belgium and into Flanders & Wallonia and Picardy with his army. At the Battle of Denain, his regiment was a part of Prince Charles John's Swedish army that invaded northern France.

During the battle, on 10 February 1814, he was killed by rocket fire from the French army. His regiment suffered heavy losses to French artillery attacks.